Winnie Cooper

Gwendolyn "Winnie" Cooper is a character in the original series, The Wonder Years. She is the daughter of Mr. Cooper and Evelyn Cooper, the younger sister of Brian Cooper, the former girlfriend of Kevin Arnold, and a good friend of Paul Pfeiffer.

Biography
Winnie is Kevin's main love interest and neighbor. Her older brother's death in the Vietnam War plays a big part in the pilot. In another episode, Winnie's parents separate in grief over the death of their son.

In the epilogue of the final episode, Winnie travels overseas to study art history in Paris. Kevin and Winnie write to each other every week for eight years until she returns; in the concluding moments of the finale, Kevin says that when Winnie returned to the States, Kevin met her accompanied by his wife and first child.